Celebrate Chinese New Year of the Dragon and British East Asian heritage @ the National Maritime Museum with a day of music, workshops and performances. Contribute to a giant dragon installation, take part in a New Year parade and meet Chinese sailor James Robson, who worked on-board the Cutty Sark tea clipper (performance by Yellow Earth). Discover how the sea trade brought ideas, culture, language and people from Asia to Britain.

East Zest Productions will be filming (11.30-13.30 and 14.00-16.00) in the Trader Gallery upstairs (next to Paul's Cafe). The museum has hand-picked four very special objects - a cargo vessel, a royal flag, a teapot and an oil painting - that will fire your imaginations, connecting the past to the present. EZP would like to capture your responses to these objects by interviewing families, groups of friends and individuals. It's a great day out for everyone. Come and get your beautiful faces on camera!

http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/events/chinese-new-year

7. Nov - 2012. Feb 2012

Jen Wu's practice is concerned with social and material narratives of transformation. It manifests itself through a multidisciplinary field combining sculpture, events, film and curation. Previous projects have included transforming London's ICA into an all-night exhibition as nightclub. During her residency Jen will be taking in Manchester and its various histories from 18th century local politics to the city's infamous 90's music scene.


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Reviving the Design and Techniques used in the Maki-e Lacquer at Kodai-ji Temple

The Maki-e Lacquer from Kodai-ji Temple in Kyoto has been regarded as one of the most superior parts of Japan's cultural heritage, certainly the best of its kind. Dating back 400 years, the Kodai-ji Maki-e lacquer caught the gaze of many a missionary who visited Japan in the 16th century, for both its intricate design as well as its marvellous technique, and helped lacquerware to become synonymous with Japan. Over the past years, an extensive research project on the Kodai-ji Maki-e lacquer has been conducted by NPO for Preservation of Kodaiji-Makie Heritage, and as result of this, the design and techniques used 400 years ago have been revived on a new screen, in the 21st century.

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Asia Triennial Manchester 2011, 1 October to 27 November 2011

Lots of other events going on but I want to highlight the film programme in particular.


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This Chinese cultural celebration will feature a sumptuous selection of artistic presentations. These will include screening of a short film about how different groups in the Chinese community celebrate the festival, Chinese music performed through collaboration between Chinese and Western musicians, Festival Poetry performed in Mandarin and English, Festival songs performed by leading Chinese vocalists (along with a local community choir) and a multimedia dance piece based on the myth upon which the Festival is based.

Audience members will also be treated to samples of the traditional festival MOON CAKES and Chinese tea.

‘Moonlight Reveries’ is funded by Liverpool Primary Care Trust, Arts Council England and Merseyside Police Authority, and is supported by Merseyside Dance Initiative, Confucius Institute, Hope Street Ltd.

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Following the successful events in Manchester and Birmingham, this is the 3rd in the Networking Series.

In this kind of economical environment, it's not necessarily how good you are at what you do, but more, who you know. Join us in our London Networking event and see who you can meet. It could lead to better opportunities in employment, better sales leads and/or collaborative partnerships. Who knows what the future holds.

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The mighty Rustic-- Anyone with a passing interest in the Beijing music scene will have no doubt come across the hair metal-loving, punk pathetique-referencing, stage-dominating threesome, and fallen in love with their outrageously enjoyable performances.” --- Time Out Beijing

This September, catch the outrageous rock band RUSTIC from China as they tour the UK!

London -- 229 The Venue -- 10 Sept.
Manchester -- Ruby Lounge -- 13 Sept.
Newcastle -- The Cluny -- 14 Sept.
Glasgow -- The Soundhaus -- 15 Sept.
Liverpool -- The Zanzibar -- 17 Sept.
Birmingham -- The Adam and Eve -- 18 Sept.





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Atsuko Tanaka was one of the foremost members of Gutai, a group which focussed on experimental art forms, their manifesto proclaiming a new relationship between the materials and the human spirit. Within this primarily male-orientated group, Tanaka was particularly unconventional and stood out from the other Gutai members, as indeed she did from other international avant-garde artists of her time. This was due not only to her radical and metaphorical expression, but also the relationship between the body of work created especially between 1953 and 1957, and her way of thinking.

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BCN are hosting a Directed Networking Event in Manchester in March 2011. We have invited some prominent Chinese professionals to give speeches, and also Mr W Wing Yip OBE has kindly agreed to come for a Q&A session as well. More details about this event can be found at

http://e-voice.org.uk/bcn/events-registration/networking/







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CAS + HKAF presents Piccadilly Revisited @ City Hall Theatre, 25-26 Feb, 2010.